In a previous November issue of the ‘Winged Chatter’ the official journal of the C Sqn SAS association of South Africa the President Grahame W. – former 2IC of the unit and recipient of one of only two Grand Cross of Valour ever awarded – presented his good wishes for the New Year. He […]

Pfumo re Vanhu was formed in 1978 as a result of the internal political settlement and the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia under the leadership of Bishop Abel Muzorewa. Several ZANLA (Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army) guerrillas of the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole’s faction who had been trained in Uganda joined the SFAs as they found themselves […]

Operation Prawn: Attacks on Line of Rail: Barragem to Malvernia: August, 1976   Reconnaissance teams dropped in by free-fall parachuting and by helicopters along the line of rail, confirmed information:to hand that ZANLA were making extensive and ever increasing use of Mozambique Railways to move large numbers of terrorists from Barragem to Mapai, and on […]

This documentary film provides an insight into the Rhodesian Bush War from a soldiers perspective. You’ll hear how the army conducted its patrols and examples of contacts with enemy terrorists.  

How rapidly times alter. As the so-called ‘Winds of Change’ swept through colonial Africa, the process of decolonisation gathered inexorable pace. Rhodesia was a prominent example. In July 1964, it experienced its first terrorist incident when a white farmer was murdered. Relations with the British government worsened the following year over the issue of majority […]